{"id":20393,"date":"2021-09-08T20:24:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=20393"},"modified":"2021-09-08T20:24:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:24:39","slug":"hong-kong-leaders-apply-national-security-law-retroactively-us-congressional-panel-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=20393","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong leaders apply national security law retroactively, US congressional panel hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe Hong Kong government has violated a pledge not to apply the city\u2019s national security law to alleged crimes committed before its enactment last summer, pro-democracy advocates and legal experts told a US congressional panel on Wednesday.As China\u2019s central government imposed the sweeping security legislation on Hong Kong last year, the city\u2019s leader, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, vowed to the United Nations that the legislation would have \u201cno retrospective effect\u201d.But witnesses appearing before\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3148072\/hong-kong-leaders-apply-national-security-law-retroactively-us?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe Hong Kong government has violated a pledge not to apply the city\u2019s national security law to alleged crimes committed before its enactment last&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20393"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}